Cliff Gorman won great acclaim and a Best Actor Tony Award in the title role of "Lenny" a Broadway play by Julian Barry, about the life and career of Lenny Bruce.
On the DVD commentary of The Boys in the Band (1970), one of the interviewed mentioned that Gorman and his wife took care of Robert La Tourneaux when he was dying of AIDS. Gorman and La Tourneaux appeared both in the original play and film version of The Boys in the Band.